Cosmomeal with Álvaro de la Herrán
3/05/2010We just recently had a very special guest attend one of our Cosmomeals, Spanish filmmaker Álvaro de la Herrán.
For the meal to be complete, we invited filmmaker Nicolás Alcalá from Riot Cinema Collective. We talked about the film industry, the difficult times it’s going through (both in Spain and outside), the democratization of film, how now anyone can do a short but not everyone can do a good short, the limits (or lack of) and differences between cinema and narrative branded content, the problems with distribution and monetization. It’s tough out there. Lots of questions, very few answers.
Check out Álvaro’s vimeo: the man’s an artist. Special mention to his work with GQ Spain and the first two minutes of his short Marrakech.
We have the impression that there are very few filmmakers with daring and innovative ideas of using web tools to sustain profitable business models around their movies. Would you agree?
Why do you think this is? Or even better: What do you think innovation in films should look like?
yuuuuhuuuuuu… Where are you filmmakers? We need you. Films need you.